MONTREAL

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does Montreal mean? 

• MONTREAL (noun)
  The noun MONTREAL has 1 sense:

1. a city in southern Quebec province on the Saint Lawrence River; the largest city in Quebec and 2nd largest in Canada; the 2nd largest French-speaking city in the world

  Familiarity information: MONTREAL used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• MONTREAL (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

A city in southern Quebec province on the Saint Lawrence River; the largest city in Quebec and 2nd largest in Canada; the 2nd largest French-speaking city in the world

Classified under:

Nouns denoting spatial position

Instance hypernyms:

city; metropolis; urban center (a large and densely populated urban area; may include several independent administrative districts)

Holonyms ("Montreal" is a part of...):

Quebec (the largest province of Canada; a French colony from 1663 to 1759 when it was lost to the British)

 Context examples 

A multinational team of scientists led by Antoine Strugarek of the University of Montreal announced the Sun may not be the cosmic oddball amongst solar-type stars some astronomers believe it to be.

(Sun's mood swings not so strange after all, Wikinews)

Parties to the Montreal Protocol reported zero new CCl4 emissions between 2007-2012.

(Ozone-depleting compound persists, NASA)

Thirty years ago, the international community signed the Montreal Protocol on Substances that Deplete the Ozone Layer and began regulating ozone-depleting compounds.

(Warmth in the Antarctic stratosphere helped limit the size of the ozone hole in 2017 to the smallest observed since 1988, NOAA)

Two years after the discovery of the Antarctic ozone hole in 1985, nations of the world signed the Montreal Protocol on Substances that Deplete the Ozone Layer, which regulated ozone-depleting compounds.

(First Direct Proof of Ozone Hole Recovery Due to Chemicals Ban, NASA)

Chlorofluorocarbons, the ozone-eating refrigerants banned by the Montreal Protocol, are declining.

(Warming due to carbon dioxide jumped by half in 25 years, NOAA)

Derived from inbred Hartley stocks at the Eastman Kodak Company and Montreal's Institute Armand Frappier, having undergone spontaneous mutation that led to hairlessness and athymicity.

(Hartley Albino Hairless Guinea Pig, NCI Thesaurus)

According to researchers at the University of Montreal Hospital Research Center (CRCHUM), non-steroidal anti-inflammatory drugs (NSAIDs) can raise the risk of heart attacks as early as in the first week of use and especially within the first month of taking high doses of such medication.

(Common Painkillers Linked to Increased Risk for Heart Attack, VOA)

The planet orbits very close to the star and is far less massive than Jupiter - 318 times Earth's mass - but has managed to accrete the primordial hydrogen/helium atmosphere that is largely 'unpolluted' by heavier elements, said Björn Benneke of the University of Montreal in Canada.

(Atmosphere of Midsize Planet Revealed by Hubble, Spitzer, NASA)

Later amendments to the Montreal Protocol completely phased out production of CFCs.

(First Direct Proof of Ozone Hole Recovery Due to Chemicals Ban, NASA)

Carbon tetrachloride (CCl4), which was once used in applications such as dry cleaning and as a fire-extinguishing agent, was regulated in 1987 under the Montreal Protocol along with other chlorofluorocarbons that destroy ozone and contribute to the ozone hole over Antarctica.

(Ozone-depleting compound persists, NASA)